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IMO the series order has to be clear from the description in the place where I'm buying the book (e.g, in the description at Amazon), or I'm unlikely to purchase. When I find something interesting I want to be able to locate the first book quickly, without downloading samples or poking around on websites. It would seem this would be a fundamental thought when it comes to marketing books, but it doesn't seem to be.
I don't see why naming schemes like "Black Sun Rising (The Coldfire Trilogy, Book 1)" are so difficult to implement, but in my experience, less than half of series books have them. Scifi and fantasy do tend to be better than historical fiction, which is appalling, especially for longer, complicated series. (Reading the Sharpe series in order required a cheat sheet.)
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